Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event of Russian military power not being decisively broken by the end of November he will be prepared to offer terms of peace to Russia which would be acceptable to the Soviet Union. As an additional inducement there would be an offer of a ten-year, non-aggression pact from Japan as well as Germany...
...Polish Stand. For Poland's Premier in Exile, General Wladslaw Sikorski, the cleavage with Russia was a personal tragedy. Opposition Poles in Britain and the U.S.* have attacked him ever since he defied Polish tradition and signed a Polish-Russian pact in July 1941, followed it with a friendship declaration in December 1941. A patriot, liberal enough to be anathema to rightist emigrés, Sikorski has showed great political courage in trying to deal with Russia. For a time, he succeeded so well that Stalin once called him the only Polish leader with whom the Kremlin could deal...
Japs and Germans. The Japanese people have only jealous hatred for their German allies, contempt for the Italians, great admiration for the Red Army. The Tripartite Pact binding Germany, Italy and Japan is soft-pedaled in the press. German defeats are glossed over, but only because the Government does not want to emphasize Allied strength...
...Josef Beck. Escaping into Soviet Russia after the German seizure of western Poland, they undertook to supply to the Polish government-in-exile military information on the U. S. S. R. They were arrested in August, 1941, and convicted on these charges. However, under the terms of a friendship pact signed between Russia and Poland, they were released. Provided with Red Cross funds, the two organized a Polish relief committee. Using this project as a front, they began distributing leaflets attacking the Soviet government and urging a separate peace between Russia and Nazi Germany. This transpired at the time when...
...Times may have spoken out of turn, but London's one-great "Thunderer" does speak the mind of a potent section of British opinion. Its editorial was no more nor less than an extension of the point of view implicit in the Anglo-Russian pact which Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin arranged...